Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pamphlet from the Senate Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations looked as dull and uninviting as any other Government document. Even the Government Printing Office has its sleepers, however, and Of Specialists and Generalists quickly became the hottest item in Washington. A 71-page compilation of commentary from ancient and modern thinkers, it deals with the question of which is preferable: the specialist with expertise in one field, or the generalist, with broader, if shallower, wisdom. In an age where much rests on the judgment of public men, the question is of considerable interest. As it happens, most...
Money tells much about a nation's character because it is so closely entwined with a nation's history, psychology and destiny. Ever since Stone Age men began bartering with furs, and the ancient Lydians introduced metal money, practically every dominant civilization has risen to power partly through its ability to create and maintain a stable, widely valued currency. If money has not always bought happiness, it has often cured ignorance and illness, supported the arts and established productive cultures...
This year's Rembrandt book. The text by Art Scholar Horst Gerson is for the most part mercifully purged of art history jargon. Eighty big color reproductions (book size: 14¾ in. by 11¼ in.) have been carefully printed to reduce the yellow cast of ancient varnish that customarily obscures Rembrandt's backgrounds. The result, though it sometimes gives the impression that the paintings have just been overzealously cleaned and scraped, offers a rare chance to linger over details normally lost in murk. Weight: 10½ pounds...
...real star of the film is the Vatican itself, with its time-encrusted rituals and ancient, artistic treasures all faithfully reproduced in Panavision. But it has a respectable supporting cast. Quinn is an effective rough-and-humble Zorba the Pope. For a change, his fellow actors-notably Vittorio De Sica as a volatile Italian cardinal and Leo McKern as a jealous one-do not look embarrassed by their clerical robes. As Father Telemond, Werner appears uncommonly youthful for his 46 years; he seems fresher in each new movie, as if, like Merlin in The Once and Future King, he were...
Doodles. And so, between Eliot and Pound, what began as a mere esthetic experiment-the mixing of time and place, vulgar anecdote and ancient legend, ethics and pop songs, classical gods and modern nonheroes-became a great work. A kind of miracle happened: the ferule of the teacher became the poet's magic wand...